French hostage Francis Collomp home from Nigeria
By Michel Arseneault pour RFI
An engineer held hostage for 11 months by armed Islamists in Nigeria has returned to France, accompanied by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. The kidnapping was claimed by Ansaru, a split-off from the Boko Haram movment. Marc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos, the author of a forthcoming book titled Boko Haram : Islamism, Politics, Security, and the State in Nigeria, comments.